Energy Department Expanding Microbial Genome Efforts

Abstract

“Take off your ties,” decreed one official from the Department of Energy (DOE), mandating both informal dress and mood for the 2007 Joint Genomics: GTL Contractor-Grantee Workshop V and USDA-DOE Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy Joint Program Meeting that were held in Bethesda, Md., last February. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), whose programs continue to expand. Specifically of interest to microbiologists, JGI is plowing plenty of resources, enthusiasm, and energy into the analysis of microbial genomes.